Andrea Modica – Human Being
At the Fulginiti Pavillion Gallery for Bioethics at the University of Colorado Medical Campus Denver – Photographs of skulls dominated by intense detail: the cracks that we know existed when we were infants reappear after death. After nearly a century in the ground the bone still shows evidence of being alive with elaborate texture like…
James Nares : Street – Joslyn Art Museum
Omaha – June 21 to September 21, 2014 – James Nares video engulfs you as you step inside the Contemporary Artists Project gallery – an open and not- claustrophobic smaller gallery cut out from the big temporary exhibitions space. The video sucks you in like a dream. You are watching from the point of view…
MCA Denver & Aspen Art Museum – Just Do It
Ernesto Neto – Gratitude – June 6 to Sept. 7, 2014 – Aspen Art Museum Matt Barton – I Think I Feel Something – July 25 to Oct. 5, 2014 – MCA Denver Located somewhere between a good science fair and a carnival, two art exhibitions are offered to the fair citizens of the state…
SIGMA Archive Awakened
Nov 14, 2013 – February 3, 2014 The Archive Comes Alive in Retrospective Exhibition BORDEAUX – Every idea has already been had, we’re just reinventing the same ones. This was a commonly said phrase before the digital era. Now we think we’re having new thoughts – like the idea of sharing a car ride, or…
David Hockney: a Bigger Exhibit
Fall 2013-Winter 2014 SAN FRANCISCO – I don’t know if he should have gone so big, I said when I saw the first painting that was 32 average-sized canvases and covered an entire wall of the deYoung Museum, in San Francisco, where the show, “A Bigger Exhibition” is housed from October 24 through February 26,…
Retrospective Reflecting
A James Turrell Retrospective, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, BCAM, Level 2 and Resnick Pavilion May 26, 2013–April 6, 2014 Turrell, the artist who is still working inside the old meteor crater outside of Flagstaff, Arizona, was talked about when he first arrived in town like a crazy man is discussed — with a…
Levitating Mass
We who have seen the double negative of land removed on two opposing ripples in the circumference of the top of the mesa in Nevada called Mormon Mesa cannot weight for the rock to arrive from the wilderness. We cannot imagine how it can be making its triumphal arrival into the city of angels, an…
Nick Cave at the Denver Art Museum
Contemporary visual art is usually not concerned with craftsmanship, said William Morrow, the curator of contemporary art at the Denver Art Museum, while asking Nick Cave why his work on view at the DAM was so well crafted. Mr. Cave said the works are made with a concern for quality because that is how he…
Wind Sculpture Installed for Wilderness
ASPEN, COLORADO – The installation called Invisible Aerovanes worked perfecting in the heavy snow conditions common in this world-renowned ski town, according to the artists Steuart Bremner & Terry Talty, who made the piece. Installed at the Red Brick Center for the Arts in Aspen, this sculpture consists of nine elements that look something like…
Conceptual Writing
DENVER – October 20, 2012 Conceptual Writing From beyond the lively hum of people inside the Museum of Contemporary Art, I heard a repetitive tick of a human voice. I worked, once, in a newsroom where the police scanner was constantly on, and it sounded like that. I followed the voice to its source on…